This young man was endowed with a psychopathic personality, and there was a history of short attacks of depression.
Perceiving this, he added, slowly, and with solemnity, "But the fair and healthy flower should be willing to shine upon the less endowed for the pure beneficence of the act.
In the variety of industries we find evidences of a race endowed with closely observant and creative minds, in which the two chief motives of life seem to have been the chase and the pursuit of art.
As the watch must have been made by man, so a manlike being, endowed with the necessary powers and faculties, must be postulated as the maker of the material universe.
Cardinal Pelagius, by his position, was endowed with great authority in the Christian army, and his naturally imperious character led him to assume even more power than he had received from the Holy See.
Endowed with all the gifts of mind, and with a keen spirit of raillery, he was as competent to confound his enemies in a discussion, as to conquer them in the field of battle.
These pious orators were not all endowed with the same eloquence; but all were animated by the most ardent zeal.
For which reason I look upon the good-natured man to be endowed with a certain discerning faculty which the envious are altogether deprived of.
Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
He founded a professorship in the Medical Department of Harvard University and endowed scholarships in the Academical Department.
Nature had endowed me with a profusion of crisp black hair, and plenty of high spirits.
Next minute, I was sorry I spoke; for as the man drew nearer, I perceived that he was endowed with very long legs and a languidly poetical bearing.
Nature had endowed her with the profound British belief that peers should be spoken of in choice and peculiar language.
The brandies and soda had endowed him with irrepressible cheerfulness.
There could not exist, properly speaking, a fetish common to several bodies; this would be a contradiction, every fetish being necessarily endowed with a material individuality.
In others, you are pestered to death by the amphitryon, who is perhaps endowed with the bump of music, and won't leave the piano for fear some one else should take his place.
But the monstrous medley which men attempt in our days of their incompatible principles, cannot evidently be endowed with any virtue foreign to the elements which compose it, and tends only, in fact, to their mutual neutralization.
Before all else we recognise how richly endowed she was with visionary powers and poetic feeling.
The convents of Saxony, as many elsewhere in the tenth and eleventh centuries, were centres of culture in the nature of endowed colleges.
Endowed with an extraordinary gift of versification, she began by writing short poems, chiefly on the joys and sorrows of love, expressing sometimes her own sentiments, sometimes those of others for whom she wrote.
At the same time he holds, in opposition to Epicureanism, the doctrine of an immaterial rational soul, endowed with immortality and capable of free determination.
In contrast with all these classes stand the heroes of the Modern Theology, who possess the "passion for reality," and are endowed with the new cosmology of Galileo.
Endowed with the most childlike nature, he was nevertheless a lion in contest.
Amid the labyrinth of philosophical speculations it is interesting and refreshing to meet with an author who, though endowed with the mind of a philosopher, was content to pass for a poet, or even for an essayist.
These individuals held that by a return to the spirit of the Reformation, Germany would be endowed with a new and living energy.
They were endowed with great talents, moral heroism, and a steady purpose to elevate every department of ecclesiastical organization.
The Indian isendowed with extraordinary sagacity, and easily learns whatever demands attention.
Believing me to be endowed with supernatural powers, they had entreated me from the very commencement of our conversation, to free them from the sickness that then desolated the camp, and to supply them with plenty.
A monastery and accompanying college, liberally endowed from Europe, was founded at Kaskaskia by Jesuit missionaries in the first quarter of the eighteenth century.
He was endowed with uncommon intelligence, frankness, generosity and courage.
This fellow pretended to be the seventh son of a seventh son, and to be endowed in consequence with miraculous powers for the cure of all diseases, but especially of those resulting from witchcraft.
These were fierce and lawless; tainted with every vice, endowed with no virtue, and redeemed by one good quality alone, that of courage.
These toads were all endowed with the faculty of speech, and entreated the witches to reward them with the flesh of unbaptized babes for their exertions to give them pleasure.
The vanity with which he regarded himself supplied him with a vindictive dislike to the world, who could suffer a fellow endowed and gifted as he was to be always in straits and difficulties.
Nature has endowed me with a variety of excellent qualities, but, somehow, in the hurry of her benevolence, she forgot patience!
If it has not been shown that Cynthia was endowed with a fair amount of sense, many of these pages have been written in vain.
One who has chosen a broader field for the exercise of those great powers with which Nature endowed her than Brampton could give.
Her pawn, which was far from unbecoming, was in keeping with those gifts with which nature had endowed her.
In this respect Comedy bears a very near affinity to Fable: in the Fable we have animals endowed with reason, and in Comedy we have men serving their animal propensities with their understanding.
We should do well to have the ancient sculpture always present to our minds; and the most accurate conception, perhaps, that we can possibly have, is to imagine them so many statues in the grand style endowed with life and motion.
Those heroes were painted as beings endowed with more than human strength; but, so far from possessing unerring virtue and wisdom, they were even depicted as under the dominion of furious and unbridled passions.
In this state of things Schiller made his appearance, a man endowed with all the qualifications necessary to produce at once a strong effect on the multitude, and on nobler minds.
In the first place, the cassock of a real priest never reposed on a heart more sensitive, endowed with feelings deeper and less hostile to audacity of mind.
It was not Byron who made the first advances, for his powers of seduction were only the attractions with which nature had endowed him.
A schooner, yawl, or cutter in charge of a capable man seems to handle herself as if endowed with the power of reasoning and the gift of swift execution.
The new House, nominated by himself in the first place, was endowed with the right in the future of excluding from its benches any new member nominated by himself or by a future Protector.
For him as for another as weak for all purposes of government, as richly endowed with the artistic temperament as himself, Not all the waters of the salt, salt sea Could wash the balm from an anointed King.
It is not uncommon to find a monastic library regularly endowed with part of the annual revenue of the House.
They do not suppose that we are passive machines, acted on by some supernatural power; but living agents, endowed with a Divine principle, which works within us "both to will and to do.
At the fearful import of these thoughts, he felt himself endowed by a bidding higher than fate.
It seemed to be endowed with its own principle of energy.
